ABSTRACT
We have here, practically complete, the pattern of behaviour between two moieties: mutual aid combined with playful hostility, intermarriage, interburial. I have elsewhere 1 attempted to derive the whole etiquette of moieties from one fundamental principle-that, for some reason or other, there must be two parties to the ritual. We may call these "god and worshipper", "victim and sacrificer ", "principal and ministrant, "king and priest ", or by whatever terms we choose to fit the particular case; they are all mere variant applications of the principle. A further rule is that the two parties must belong to different lines. If one line is principal, the other must be ministrant.
